Another passage from this same book warns us: “After having carefully considered the revolting origin of meat and the cruelty of captivity and to death of living beings, let us abstain entirely from all consumption of flesh”.
God asks us to protect animals and plants, including trees.
As God asks that we do no harm to human beings whoever they are, He also asks us to do no harm to terrestrial and aquatic animals, plants, and of course to trees and flowers. All the surfaces where trees are grown for their fruits and flowers are useful to human beings, but also to animals of all species.
Fruits and flowers are greatly appreciated by God, the Supreme Person. If anyone wishes to please the Lord, he can simply offer Him with love some flowers, fruits, tulasi leaves, water, and He will be happy to accept these noble and magnificent offerings. Our only duty is to satisfy God, the Supreme Person. Whatever we do and whatever our activity and occupation, our first objective must be to satisfy Krishna, the Supreme Lord.
Unfortunately, nowadays demonic disbelievers, evil atheist unbelievers, massacres land and water animals all over the world for the sole pleasure of their taste buds, and destroy flower beds as well as trees with the help of axes, power saws, or by fire, thus killing at the same time a considerable number of living beings flying, crawling, mammals, invertebrates, etc., which surround them, for the sole pleasure of increasing their cultivation surface or breeding. Other equally evil people cut down important trees that produce flowers, fruits, berries, for the sole pleasure of increasing their land.
The destroyer of trees by fire in the forest or any other wooded place, forgets that by doing so it kills a considerable number of living beings who live among trees, who live on their branches or rest there, at ground level or underground. He forgets that by destroying trees he also destroys many other plants, which also have the right to live and therefore to exist. He will have to answer for all these crimes before divine justice.
In general, it is forbidden to cut down trees, because they serve as shelters for many living beings, birds, insects, ants, butterflies, caterpillars, bees, mammals, etc., but it is above all forbidden to cut down and therefore destroy trees bearing succulent fruits and flowers, as they serve as food for humans, but also for many animals of various species.
Send the animals of various species in the slaughterhouses so that they are killed and butchered there, to take the fish out of the water and let them die of asphyxiation in order to market their corpses, to eat their respective flesh, are the most abominable sins that are, of which it will be necessary to answer. We can escape human justice, but from God's justice know that it is impossible.
The Lord condemns the killing of animals.